Filip
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Filip is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. In Czech, recorded as a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip.
- CZCzechia1 in 106(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 217
- FRFrance≈1 in 195as Philippe
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Filip itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #123 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 618 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Philippe, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Philippe in FR France, BE Belgium, Philip in GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and Phillip in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Filip is read(measured from records)
Filip is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Filip in Croatian.
- Polish17%
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
- Czech12%
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Filip in English.
- Swedish5.3%
The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filip counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #7 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 195 | 539K | Philippe | 469 |
| US United States | #90 | 223,037as Philip | 1 in 1.5K | 361K | Phillip | 618 |
| NG Nigeria | #260 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Philip | 128 |
| PL Poland | #123 | 176,647 | 1 in 217 | 177K | Filip | 187 |
| GB United Kingdom | #41 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | 106K | Philip | 389 |
| CZ Czechia | #36 | 100,928 | 1 in 106 | 101K | Filip | 170 |
| BE Belgium | #3 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 243 | 2.8K | Philippe | 212 |
| MK North Macedonia | #3 | 9,484as Филип | 1 in 224 | 9.5K | Filip | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Filip is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Polish and Czech form of PHILIP . Pet forms: Polish: Filipek. Czech: Filípek, Fil(ou )ek .
as a word
In Russian, var of Filipp.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philip II of Macedonb. 385GRKing of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
- Wilhelm Liebknechtb. 1826DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- Philip Johnsonb. 1906USAmerican architect (1906–2005)
- Philip Warren Andersonb. 1923USAmerican physicist (1923-2020)
- Philip K. Dickb. 1928USAmerican science fiction author (1928–1982)
- Philip Rothb. 1933USAmerican novelist (1933–2018)
- Philip Kaufmanb. 1936USAmerican film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Phil Collinsb. 1951GBnot in their usual nameEnglish drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
- Philip Seymour Hoffmanb. 1967USAmerican actor (1967–2014)
- James Milnerb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 100 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 177K | #40 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 174K | #42 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 101K | #53 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 50K | #61 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,590 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 770 | #1,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #5,590 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Filip have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Philippe in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Filip most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filip is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 106 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Filip mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Filip?
- In Poland, the national register counted 176,647 people named Filip in 2026, about 1 in 217 residents.
- How common is Filip compared with other names?
- In France, Filip is the 7th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- Is Filip a male or female name?
- Filip is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Filip?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Filip?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filipThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Filip” — the 7th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.